Quoting widescreenforever:

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If this was a movie.. Bruce Willis would save the day ... 

You can bet they're gonna make a movie out of this...

Quoting bbbbb:

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Do you need fossil oil to be able to fabricate DVD and B-rD cases?

No, plastics can be made from vegetable sources, but are not yet in widescpead use. 99.9% of DVD/Blu-ray cases are probably still petroleum based.

Day 57 .........   

Quoting FilmAlba:

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...If we where to switch all plastic production vegetable sources i think that be it from the Amazon.

This would never work. Til now there can just a few applications be substittuded by "natural" plastics. But let's see what the future brings.

Of course you'll need space for this, but that doesn't mean automatically the Amazon has to be cleared.

I don't live on those water, but I live nearby and visit every 4 or 5 days. There are people who are still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina... and now this has come along which has or will ruin much of the fishing and tourism industry all because a company tries to save a few dollars assuming the worst couldn't possibly happen. But it did.

On top of that, it seems like every solution that they come up with creates new problems. One attempt was to drop sand on it. I guess they expected the sand to clump the oil to keep it from spreading and making it easier to collect. Instead it caused this oil which had been floating to the surface to sink in balls back down to the ocean floor which is most likely causing more havoc on the marine life down there.

This is just a very nasty situation. My home was one of the most beautiful beaches in the world on the West Coast of Florida. So far, so good, down there. This appears to be a clusterduck of the worst magnitude, BP, the government...nobody has a clue or can get it right. Pray for those on the Gulf Coast, I worry about whther or not this might wind up being the death blow to that region.

Good ole government cover up, as usual. Believe me it is worse than you can imagine.

All do to ggod ole fashion greed. Just can't make that money fast enough.

You know it's about 5 miles down. I think it's about a 100,000 psi.

They were told not to drill that deep in the ocean by a number of geologists.

They ignored any and all safety advice.

Ignored the advice to slow the drilling when the pressure was building up.

EPA tests indicates a number of deadly gases about 1,000 to 3,000 times the amount acceptable amount are being released.

All BP has managed to do is create more fissures.

There is a bubble down there about 20 x 10 miles and if goes Mt. St. Helena all over.
Every thing close by will sink.

This oil will migrate around Florida and up the northeast coast. Enough oil on the water and it may reflect enough of the sun's heat to cause another ice age.

Hey, it's 2012, are you ready.

Drilled down, I think it was 22,00+ feet.

In the 1970's, Russia drilled over 40,000 feet into the ground and discovered abiotic oil, i.e. oil which replenishes itself via an as-yet-unknown chemical process. The off-shore drilling done by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, was their attempt to create a similar super-deep well and access this same abiotic oil. The pressure from this pocket of abiotic oil in the Gulf was so great that it burst all the safety valves on the floating platform.

It has been alleged that oil industry insiders believe that the only method to stop the flow of oil in the Gulf is via a nuclear device and even that has potential for catastrophic results. The potential danger of using a nuke to thwart the spill because it could "pop the bubble" and cause all of the underground oil to emerge simultaneously. On the potential long term effects of the crisis if the flow of oil is not stopped. It could reach Europe within three years through the Gulf Stream. The overwhelming amount of dangerous gasses, which are also being released from the disaster, could be swept along the East Coast should a hurricane arrive in the Gulf.